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A Level Advancing Physics for OCR B: Year 2

Name: A Level Advancing Physics for OCR B: Year 2
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ISBN: 9780198378686

By Lawrence Herklots, John Miller

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Book Description

New and updated resources tailored to the 2015 Advancing Physics specification, from OCR's resource partner. With new accessible format and features throughout, these resources retain the ethos of Advancing Physics while providing full support for the new linear qualification.This Student Book contains two year's worth of content and covers the full A Level qualification.

Table of Contents

Front Cover
Title Page
AS/A Level course structure
Contents
How to use this book
Kerboodle
Studying Advancing Physics
Module 5.1 Creating models
- 10 MODELLING DECAY
  - 10.1 Radioactive decayand half-life
  - 10.2 Another way of looking at radioactive decay
  - 10.3 Capacitors in circuits
  - Physics in perspective
    - How old is the Earth?
  - Practice questions
- 11 MODELLING OSCILLATIONS
  - 11.1 Introducing simple harmonic oscillators
  - 11.2 Modelling simple harmonic oscillation
  - 11.3 Using the models of simple harmonic motion
  - 11.4 Resonance
  - Physics in perspective
    - Resonance all around us
  - Practice questions
- 12 THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
  - 12.1 Circular motion
  - 12.2 Newton’s law of gravitation
  - 12.3 Gravitational potential in a uniform field
  - 12.4 Gravitational potentialin a radial field
  - Physics in perspective
    - Standing on the shoulders of giants
  - Practice questions
- 13 OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
  - 13.1 Measuring the Solar System
  - 13.2 Measuring the Universe
  - 13.3 Special relativity
- Module 5.1 Creating models
- Physics in perspective
  - The hunt for dark matter
- Practice questions
Module 5.2 Matter
- 14 SIMPLE MODELS OF MATTER
  - 14.1 The gas laws
  - 14.2 The kinetic model of gases
  - 14.3 Energy in matter
  - Physics in perspective
    - Ballooning: the first space race
  - Practice questions
- 15 THE BOLTZMANN FACTOR
  - 15.1 The ratio EkT
  - 15.2 The Boltzmann factor e− EkT
  - Module 5.2 Matter
  - Physics in perspective
    - Lasers
  - Practice questions
Module 6.1 Fields
- 16 ELECTROMAGNETISM
  - 16.1 Faraday and Lenz
  - 16.2 transformers
  - 16.3 generators
  - 16.4 Flux changes and force
  - Physics in perspective
    - Eddy current and regenerative braking
  - Practice questions
- 17 THE ELECTRIC FIELD
  - 17.1 Uniform electric fields
  - 17.2 Deflecting charged beams
  - 17.3 Charged spheres
  - Physics in perspective
    - Mass spectrometers
  - Practice questions
Module 6.2 Fundamental particles
- 18 LOOKING INSIDE THE ATOM
  - 18.1 Probing the atom with alpha particles
  - 18.2 Accelerating charges and electron scattering
  - 18.3 Inside the nucleus
  - 18.4 Creation and annihilation
  - 18.5 Electrons in atoms
  - Physics in perspective
    - Using antimatter to image the brain
  - Practice questions
- 19 USING THE ATOM
  - 19.1 Ionising radiation
  - 19.2 Effects of radiation on tissue
  - 19.3 Stability and decay
  - 19.4 Fission and fusion
- Module 6.2 Summary
- Physics in perspective
  - Fission – past and future
- Practice questions
Paper 1 Practice questions (A Level)
Paper 2 Practice questions (A Level)
Paper 3 Practice questions (A Level)
Maths Appendix
Data, Formulae and Relationships
Glossary
Answers
Index
Back Cover